evolution in action (Re: Napster)

[iriXx]

On Fri, 2002-09-06 at 11:09, Ben Laurie wrote:

> > actually, from the article i'd read, Lucky's patent covers Palladium on
> > TCPA-systems as well... do you have information that is different?...
> 
> Hmmm. Well, I was there at the time and I know it was a specific 
> response to Microsoft's claim that Palladium doesn't do DRM, so it was 
> generally aimed at Palladium rather than TCPA. However, it seems to me 
> that the relevant capabilities of both are possibly sufficiently similar 
> that it would apply to both.
> 
> Note, though, that TCPA doesn't currently include protected I/O space, 
> so is trivially vulnerable to hardware based attacks on DRM.

would you be able to give me some more detailed technical information on
how this works?... perhaps off-list, if its getting a bit OT for
everyone...

thanks

m

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